Snapchat Cracks Down on Windows Phone Imitator Apps

Snapchat doesn’t offer a Windows Phone app, and the popular messaging platform doesn’t want third parties building Windows Phone apps for its service either. At least for the time being.
Over the weekend, a number of imitation Snapchat apps on the Windows Phone Store disappeared—apparently at Snapchat’s request.
Unlike many popular online networks, Snapchat doesn’t yet offer a public application programming interface (API) to allow developers to build apps for the service. A third-